Action Alert! 2-24-15 meeting re: Open Shooting Range

The email below is forwarded from Save Our County. This has become an urgent matter as the Tribe expects to be operational in just a few months and the most recent project description includes 29 outdoor shooting lanes, which will produce noise that could travel for miles. Proposing to locate a large outdoor shooting range within a residential area in close proximity to elementary schools and a highway is quite alarming. Significant noise and traffic impacts would be expected. Our concerns revolve around quality of life and safety issues, and in no way relate to gun rights.

Please attend the Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Board of Supervisors meeting at 2:00pm. The Shingle Springs Miwok Tribe will be giving a presentation to the public about their open shooting range proposed for construction at the southeast corner of Highway 50 and Shingle Springs Drive.

The neighbors are upset about the way this project has been handled by the government and the Tribe. The public would like some oversight by those in authority to consider the safety issues regarding an open range adjacent to residents, the highway, the trail and schools. The Tribe has not submitted a project application to the County. When a project application is submitted to the County, it starts the notification process to other agencies about the project, such as Caltrans for highway safety, the Army Corps of Engineers for waterway safety, and the Bureau of Land Management for hunting safety (http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/folsom/hunting_restrictions.html).

We need our Board of Supervisors to take a firm stance on this project and demand that the Tribe submit a project application to the County so that public health and safety can be reviewed in an open and transparent process. It is imperative that our government hold the Tribe to the law so that non-compatible land use does not cause harm to the surrounding community.

I request that you take a firm stance and demand that the Tribe submit a project application for their proposed open shooting range project so that public health and safety can be reviewed in an open and transparent process.